Package for gRPC Python.

gRPC Python is available for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows running Python 2.7.

If you are installing locally...

$ pip install grpcio

Else system wide (on Ubuntu)...

$ sudo pip install grpcio

n.b. On Windows and on Mac OS X one must have a recent release of pip to retrieve the proper wheel from PyPI. Be sure to upgrade to the latest version!

Building from source requires that you have the Python headers (usually a package named python-dev).

$ export REPO_ROOT=grpc
$ git clone https://github.com/grpc/grpc.git $REPO_ROOT
$ cd $REPO_ROOT
$ pip install .

Note that $REPO_ROOT can be assigned to whatever directory name floats your fancy.

Help, I ...

• ... see a pkg_resources.VersionConflict when I try to install grpc!

  This is likely because pip doesn't own the offending dependency, which in turn is likely because your operating system's package manager owns it. You'll need to force the installation of the dependency:

  pip install --ignore-installed $OFFENDING_DEPENDENCY